Some random ideas for ITS-c
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### Encoding

The original ITS uses the SIXBIT encoding which made sense on the PDP-10 where it came from but not so much on a system with multiple-of-8-bits word sizes. We propose making the system unicode safe so that hackers from all cultures and backgrounds can feel at home.

### Sourcecode

To make sure that all hackers have access to the ITS they are using we have licensed the implementation under the GNU AGPLv3. To make it easy for any hacker to get access to the sourcecode of a program they are using we are proposing adding a .SOURCE section to the binary format of the executables. This makes it easy for any hacker to get access to the corresponding source at any time. Toolchains have to be modified to make this practical of course.

### self-virtualization

If a hacker wants to make fundamental changes to the system she may want to test those changes in safety first as to not cause problems for other users or tourists. It should be trivially easy for any hacker to create a personal instance of the currently running ITS for very low-level experimentation and exploration. 


